(AFP) The French government on Friday vowed to send thousands more police onto the streets to ensure security as investigators sought to uncover what motivated a young Tunisian to kill three people inside a church in the southern city of Nice.
The bloodshed inside Nice’s Notre-Dame basilica on Thursday morning added new tension in a country already on the highest alert after a string of attacks blamed on suspected Islamists in recent weeks.
The 21-year-old Tunisian arrived in France this month via Italy before carrying out what the government described as an act of “Islamist” terror inside the church.
The suspected knifeman, identified as Brahim Issaou, was shot multiple times by police in the aftermath of the attack. He has been in serious condition and was not conscious as of Friday evening, a source close to [the] matter told AFP.
